Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 1:56 AM MDT for Hamilton County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2000, 1:56 AM MDT (07:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 2:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hamilton County, KS, Kearny County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:45 AM MDT | Hail 1 | Lakin, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 300757 SVRDDC KSC075-093-300845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 256 AM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS NORTHWESTERN KEARNY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 345 AM CDT(245 AM MDT) * AT 256 AM CDT(156 AM MDT)...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF KENDALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF KENDALL BY 205 AM MDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3795 10180 3782 10164 3812 10119 3830 10141 BURGERT NNNN G
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 2:52 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Scott | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 3:04 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 3:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 3:54 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 4:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 4:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 4:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 5:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 45 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.